AC 6996 - Mediation and Communication

AC 6996 [1-2]

. . . the Divine truth proceeding immediately
from the Lord's Divine Human
cannot be heard and perceived by any man,
nor even by an angel.
Therefore in order that it may be heard and perceived,
there must be mediation,
which mediation is effected through heaven,
and afterward
through the angels and spirits with the person.

This can be plainly known from the fact
that man cannot even hear
the spirits who are with him
speaking with one another;
and if he heard
he could not perceive,
because the speech of spirits is without human words,
and is the universal speech of all languages.
Moreover spirits cannot hear angels;
and if they heard 
they could not perceive,
because the angelic speech is still more universal.
Indeed, the angels of the inmost heaven
can be still less heard and perceived,
because their speech is not a speech of ideas,
but of affections which are of celestial love.
Seeing that since these kinds of speech
are so far away from man,
that they cannot possibly
be heard and perceived by him,
what then, so to speak, must be the Divine speech,
which is infinitely above
all the kinds of speech in the heavens!
It is said "the Divine speech,"
but the Divine truth proceeding
from the Divine Human of the Lord is meant.
This being so, it can be seen
that the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord,
in order to be heard and perceived,
must pass to man through mediations.
The last mediation is through
the spirit who is with the man,
who inflows either into his thought,
or by means of a living voice.